Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Description: Thirteen-year-old,
half-breed banshee, Seven, likes her life. She leads souls safely to Death and
she has the planet’s most awesome dad and little brother. But a cryptic message
from Atlantis asking for her help changes all that. And then there’s Death, who
has decided it’s time to take her brother’s soul. Now she’s racing across the
world, trying to stay one step ahead of Death.

Unfortunately, getting to Atlantis from Ireland isn’t easy, there are evil
minions determined to keep her away every time she turns around. But fighting for
their lives teaches Seven one very important lesson—she isn’t human, and she
isn’t a banshee. She has to be both if she wants to save her brother and make
it back home alive.

Guardians of the Gateby Laura D. Bastian

Description: Thirteen-year-old
merman, Exander, wants to leave Atlantis to mingle with the humans and explore
the world above. Talia, his best friend, wishes she was a guardian of a gate
leading to the surface. She'd keep those nasty humans out of her beloved city
of Atlantis. When Talia accidentally short circuits a gate, Exander is trapped
on the wrong side, getting a crash course in navigating the human world. As
Talia fights to help Exander come home, she learns someone is closing the other
gates, and it’s destroying the magic of Atlantis. If they can’t convince the
magical creatures of the world to save the gates, the destruction of Atlantis
will only be the beginning.

Secrets of the Mineby Juli Caldwell

Description: Adam
Alfaro daydreams about magic, myths, and becoming famous for discovering the
lost city of Atlantis. The only problem? He has to spend spring break in Africa
while his mom works. To make it worse, everyone expects him to be friends with
the annoying Clancy Pitt while he’s there. It’s dislike at first sight...until
he realizes she might know a few secrets about Atlantis.

Then he meets Nef, a spirited sea kelpie who needs help rescuing kidnapped naiads,
left to die in an ancient mine. Suddenly the strange creatures Adam dreamed of
become all too real. And they’re after him. Can Adam, Clancy, and Nef fight
their way through the maze of tunnels in the mine and reach the naiads before
it's too late?

Magicians of the Deepby Jaclyn Weist

Description:
Thirteen-year-old Colin knew nothing of the magic
world until he is bitten by a mischievous pixie. He meets thirteen-year-old
Alleya on a secret website devoted to magical creatures.Alleya has been hidden away from the rest of
Atlantis because of who she is. She accidentally lets slip a dark secret—the
gates to Atlantis are being shut down and it's destroying magic. For her
treason, Alleya is exiled to Indiatlantis.

Together, Colin and Alleya must find a way to bring
back the old magic and fight to save Atlantis.

Madness Behind the
Throneby JR Simmons

Description: Callidora
is an Atlantian noblewoman and member of an elite guard whose purpose is to
keep Atlantis pure...until her life is turned upside down by the birth of
a son.

Phoibos, bullied and taunted by other kids, is sure of one thing: something is
wrong with Atlantis. Impure, Atlantian-Human hybrids are ruining his city, and
he'll stop at nothing to rectify that. Callidora is the only one who knows the
truth of who her only son really is, and how dangerous he can be. Can anyone
stop Phoibos before his need for purification brings Atlantis to the very brink
of destruction?

Battle for Acropolisby Mikey Brooks

Description: Thirteen-year-old
Talon is in trouble...again. He didn't mean to burn down the school library. It
just happened. Things like that always happen to Talon. His life is a mixture
of the weird and bizarre. No one else he knows can shoot fire from their hands
or cause an earthquake...but he can.

Every night the same dream haunts Talon: the destruction of an underwater city.
He doesn't have a clue what it means but he feels like fate is trying to warn
him. It's not until he runs away with his foster sister Hattie that he
discovers his trouble-making powers and strange nightmare are connected.
Together they are the key to saving magic...to saving Atlantis.

Review:

Honestly I have only read one of these books,
however being on the inside of the interworking of this series I have a good
idea of what each book entails. They are written to be a series but technically
could be read separately. The one book that I have read is number 6, Battle forAcropolis. It was a fabulous book and could be read, like each of
the books, on its own, however it helps tremendously to read each book to get
the whole story. The characters appear throughout the different books in the series.
Saying this, I read the last book in the series and when introduced to a huge
amount of characters in the end of the story became a little confusing
remembering who everyone was. I feel the confusion would have been avoided if I
knew these characters better from reading the books they “star” in as well. I
look forward to reading the other books in this series and would recommend
anybody to read the series in its entirety

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

With school getting ready to start up again I’m hoping I
will have more time to devote to my blog. Bean is going into Kindergarten and
Buggy will start preschool. My babies are growing up so fast! My goal is to
start reviewing books, and posting them on a weekly basis. Book Review Tuesday!
One of my favorite things to do (when I can find the time) is reading! My
husband is constantly telling me I read far too much, and to my author husband
I said if it wasn’t for people like me he’d be out of a job :) needless to say
he doesn’t bug me about reading anymore ;) So I thought why not put more into my reading and
help other people find good books out there to read and also which to avoid… in
my opinion anyways. So here is goes…

The book I would like to start with is very dear to me! One
of my favorite books that I have read too many times to count… the book is
falling apart if that tells you anything.

Return to Red Castle
by Dorothy Keddington

Genre: Clean
Romantic Mystery

Description:
(found on Amazon.com)

Red Castle ... an ancient citadel of wine-red
stone in the heart of Utah's primitive High Uinta Mountains. Hidden away near
its rocky base, a small plane lies twisted and broken.

The four men ... desperate, ruthless, will stop at
nothing to retrieve the plane's valuable cargo, but their only clue to its location are the words ... Red Castle.
Jesse
Chisholm ... rugged, lonely, one of the new breed of modern Mountain Men. As a
geologist for the Forest Service, he calls the wilderness his home and only the
mountains know the secrets of his heart.
Melissa Heydon ... spirited, young, in
love with life, the mountains, and Jesse Chisholm.

Review:

This book is seriously one of my all-time favorite
books. It is one of the first books I can remember reading and is a big part of
why I love reading so much! I can’t remember quite when, sometime in my early
high school years, I was bored during the summer so my mom made me read this
book. I fell in love with it and have been a read-a-holic ever since. That
summer I went through countless novels and haven’t stopped reading since.

I couldn’t tell you a bad thing about this book, I
love everything about it! Dorothy is great at painting a picture in my head of
the scenery and things she describes. When I read her books I feel like I’m
watching a movie in my head as I read.

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